A production digital news portal and multi-author editorial CMS used by a regional publisher, supporting 100k+ all-time visitors with curated headlines, fast search, caching, and cookie-free visitor analytics.
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This live platform was built for a regional digital media publisher moving from a generic legacy blogging setup to a customized, faster media system. The editorial operation includes administrative editors, full-time journalists, and guest contributors, and the public portal has supported 100k+ all-time visitors.
Public pages were slowed by unoptimized relationships and missing indexes, editorial permissions did not isolate drafts cleanly, search discovery was weak, and third-party tracking scripts added browser overhead and privacy friction.
We developed a custom publishing system with isolated business actions, data transfer objects, role-based editorial policies, automatic cache invalidation, database-backed search suggestions, and lightweight first-party visitor tracking.
The system separates HTTP requests from database transactions through action classes and structured data objects. Eloquent lifecycle events purge cached content when articles change, while strict policies keep staff authors limited to their own drafts and published articles.
Structured the database schema, migrations, seeders, and model relationships; engineered cache invalidation around article lifecycle events; enforced role-based editorial policies; and wrote integration tests for the news cycle, visitor logging, and access control.
The platform is live and actively used, supporting 100k+ all-time visitors. Cached homepage reads reduce repeated database work, editorial policies protect drafts from accidental access, native visitor tracking avoids heavy third-party scripts, and responsive layouts improve the mobile reading experience.
We can help build a publishing system that keeps editorial workflows secure, search responsive, and public pages fast.
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